Podcast Episodes

The Musk Bubble in Tech Is Going to Pop (w/Alex Stamos)

This past Thursday Elon Musk accused Alex Stamos, Facebook’s former chief security officer and the director of the Stanford Internet Observatory, of …

3 years, 3 months ago

Hollywood As Told By the Former NBC Entertainment Chairman (w/Paul Telegdy)

Former NBC Entertainment chairman Paul Telegdy once lorded over Hollywood as a titan of television as the industry around him was crumbling. The Netf…

3 years, 4 months ago

Going All-In on the Tech/Media War (w/Jason Calacanis)

There’s no one more perfectly situated between the tech media and the tech elites who loathe them.

Jason Calacanis built his reputation in Silicon Val…

3 years, 4 months ago

Taylor Swift Tickets, FTX & Twitter

If you’ve resolved that this Thanksgiving you won’t yield the conversation about tech entirely to your NFT-happy, crypto-pushing younger cousin, this…

3 years, 4 months ago

SBF in Shambles (w/Teddy Schleifer)

On the latest episode of Dead Cat, we examine how effective altruism’s crypto benefactor took the world — and the media and the Democratic Party, in …

3 years, 4 months ago

The End of Quiet Quitting (w/Aki Ito)

While I was in Lisbon for Web Summit, Dead Cat co-hosts Tom Dotan and Katie Benner kept the podcast going without me. They brought on my old colleagu…

3 years, 5 months ago

Blue Checks & Semi-Fascism (w/Tim Miller)

This week, we invited Tim Miller — the repentant former Republican operative and author of Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to He…

3 years, 5 months ago

Roko's Basilisk (w/Nathan Benaich)

Nathan Benaich, the lone general partner at Air Street Capital, has long been on my radar as an artificial intelligence obsessive.

And so now that th…

3 years, 5 months ago

VC Twitter Ghostwriters (w/Logan Bartlett)

Insider’s anonymous first-person account of a ghostwriter for venture capitalists’ tweets captivated tech Twitter last week. Everyone wanted to know …

3 years, 5 months ago

Cult of the Dead Cat (w/Joseph Menn)

In November 2017, with Dara Khosrowshahi a few months into his job as Uber CEO, the ride-hailing company came to me with some explosive information: …

3 years, 5 months ago